TMZ is advertisement that Weiland was begin asleep on his bout bus in Minnesota at about 9 p.m. Thursday night while touring with his accepted accumulation the Wildabouts. The accumulation was appointed to accomplish at the Medina Entertainment Center in Medina, Minnesota Thursday night.
Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro appear the account in a since-deleted cheep anon afterwards midnight EST. “Just abstruse our acquaintance Scott Weiland has died,” he wrote. “So gutted, I am cerebration of his ancestors tonight.”
Weiland’s Velvet Revolver bandmate, guitarist Dave Kushner, tweeted anon afterwards Navarro “RIP Scott Weiland.”
Weiland was built-in Scott Richard Kline on October 27th, 1967 in San Jose, California. His mother, Sharon Williams, and father, Kent Kline, afar two years later. A stepfather, Dave Weiland, adopted him at age 5 and afflicted his endure name. He confused with his ancestors to Ohio for a amount of years afore abiding to California as a teenager.
He rose to bulge in the aboriginal Nineties as the frontman of the San Diego–based Stone Temple Pilots, who denticulate hits with songs like “Creep,” “Big Empty,” “Vasoline” and “Interstate Love Song.” The bandage had appear calm in the mid-Eighties and recorded a audience beneath the name Mighty Joe Young about 1990. Afterwards demography the name Stone Temple Pilots, they put out 5 albums amid 1994 and 2001 and won a Grammy in 1994 for the Core individual “Plush” afore disbanding in 2002. They regrouped in 2008, arising the Stone Temple Pilots anthology in 2010, afore battlefront Weiland in 2013 and replacing him with Linkin Park accompanist Chester Bennington.
In amid stints with STP, Weiland fronted Velvet Revolver, a accumulation which, in accession to Kushner, featured above Guns N’ Roses associates Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum. The bandage appear two albums and becoming two gold-selling singles, “Slither” and “Fall to Pieces,” and a Grammy (for “Slither”) afore Weiland abdicate in 2008 to acknowledge his above-mentioned band. They briefly reunited in 2012 for a one-off concert.
In amid his assorted bands, the accompanist aswell put out four abandoned albums. His a lot of contempo and alone absolution with the Wildabouts, including Blaster, came out beforehand this year. Above-mentioned to the release, he and the accumulation had been assuming Stone Temple Pilots songs live. “We got absolutely bound as a unit,” he told Rolling Stone beforehand this year. “It fabricated me absolutely wish to go into the studio.”
Throughout abundant of his career, Weiland about battled addiction. He was bedevilled of affairs able cocaine in 1995 and of two DUIs in 2003 and 2007, respectively, according to CNN.
Weiland is survived by two children, Noah and Lucy, whom he had with his ex-wife Mary Forsberg, and his accepted wife, Jamie Wachtel, whom he wed in 2013. The brace met in 2011, if she photographed him at a music video shoot, according to Los Angeles Times. He was aswell affiliated to Janina Castaneda throughout a lot of of the Nineties.
“Ultimately, our ambition was to actualize a legacy,” Weiland told Rolling Stone in 2008 of Stone Temple Pilots. “When we were in the car active about together, announcement bounded gigs, it was, ‘One day we will be one of those bands that accept a artistic legacy.’”
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